Arielle Twist
Arielle Twist is a Cree poet from Canada.[1] Her debut poetry collection Disintegrate / Dissociate was published in 2019, and won the Indigenous Voices Award for English poetry in 2020;[2] in the same year, Twist won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers.[3]
A member of the George Gordon First Nation from Saskatchewan,[4] Twist identifies as transgender and Two-Spirit.[5] She was mentored in her early career by writer Kai Cheng Thom.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Morgan Mullin, "Behind the verse with Arielle Twist". The Coast, August 13, 2020.
- ^ "Winners Announced for 2020 Indigenous Voices Awards". Open Book, June 22, 2020.
- ^ "4 emerging Canadian writers receive $10K prizes from Writers' Trust of Canada". CBC Books, October 21, 2020.
- ^ Jane van Koeverden, "Arielle Twist explores grief in her poetry and finds a home in the Indigenous arts community". CBC Books, April 29, 2019.
- ^ Kyle Muzyka, "Why two-spirit, trans writer Arielle Twist is afraid of love". Unreserved, February 8, 2019.
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